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- English Word Wany Definition To wane.
- English Word Wany Definition Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; -- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log.
- English Word Wany Definition Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.
- English Word Wanze Definition To wane; to wither.
- English Word Wap Definition To beat; to whap.
- English Word Wap Definition A blow or beating; a whap.
- English Word Wapacut Definition The American hawk owl. See under Hawk.
- English Word Wapatoo Definition The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead (Sagittaria variabilis); -- so called by the Indians of Oregon.
- English Word Waped Definition Cast down; crushed by misery; dejected.
- English Word Wapentake Definition In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds.
- English Word Wapinschaw Definition An exhibition of arms. according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; -- formerly made at certain seasons in each district.
- English Word Wapiti Definition The American elk (Cervus Canadensis). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size.
- English Word Wapp Definition A fair-leader.
- English Word Wapp Definition A rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set taut.
- English Word Wappato Definition See Wapatoo.
- English Word Wappened Definition A word of doubtful meaning used once by Shakespeare.
- English Word Wapper Definition To cause to shake; to tremble; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter.
- English Word Wapper Definition A gudgeon.
- English Word Wappet Definition A small yelping cur.
- English Word Wapping Definition Yelping.
- English Word War Definition The profession of arms; the art of war.
- English Word War Definition To make war upon; to fight.
- English Word War Definition To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
- English Word War Definition To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
- English Word War Definition To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
- English Word War Definition a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
- English Word War Definition A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
- English Word War Definition Ware; aware.
- English Word War Definition A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
- English Word War Definition Instruments of war.